Call of Duty: Warzone Season 01 Patch Notes

• Reduced environmental reverb effects across all player, friendly and enemy footsteps.

• Reduced volume of first-person player footsteps.

• Increased volume of enemy footsteps.

• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to use unintended Perks.
  • We are continuing to investigate an unrelated issue with the Ghost Perk.

• Fixed collision issues with various elements across Urzikstan allowing Players to exploit/peek/shoot through them.

• Fixed an issue in Holiday Rush where Santa was unable to aim at lower elevations.

• Resolved some cases that could result in mismatched player animations between the client and server, targeting Warzone, high player count MP matches, and Zombies.

• Resolved a visual bug for some cases where blood effects could appear where shots did not connect with their intended target.

We remain committed to tracking and investigating reports from the community. Studio teams are always monitoring reported issues and continue to prioritize optimization of our infrastructure to ensure the best experience for all players.

• Munitions & Utility Box
  • Both boxes have been adjusted to provide the maximum possible amount of ammunition for the primary and secondary weapons a player is carrying. 
  • It will no longer provide ammunition for each other ammunition type.

Thank you for dropping in to join us for the first Season of the new Warzone experience. Following launch in November, we have been working through your feedback as well as our internal data. Season 01 Reloaded brings exciting changes and improvements with more to come in the future.

The Season 01 Reloaded update focuses on a number of bug fixes, several Quality of Life changes, server performance improvements - and more.

We thank you for sharing your experiences so far and we look forward to hearing more from our community.

• Holiday Rush Limited-Time Mode
  • Deck the halls of Area 99. Join the festivities in this fast-paced resurgence mode as players compete over valuable presents. Keep an eye to the sky for a special guest and watch out for yellow snowballs!
  • Player Count: 40
  • Squad Size: Quads
  • Map: Area 99

• Slay Ride Resurgence Limited-Time Mode
  • Undead Santa returns to Urzikstan! Battle against players, defeat Undead Santa and his zombie henchmen, capture Codmas trees for powerful loot, and race to control the Urzikstan train in this festive, action-packed game mode.
  • Player Count: 56
  • Squad Size: Quads
  • Map: Urzikstan

For information about upcoming Playlists, please check out the dedicated Warzone Trello Board.

Warzone Ranked Play: Battle Royale makes its triumphant return on December 5th, 2024. The playlist update will go live shortly after the Season 01 Reloaded update deploys.

In order to access this mode, players must place amongst the top squads in at least 30 matches to be eligible to queue up and begin climbing the ranks.

In this case, "Top Placement" is defined as finishing among the Top 6 teams in Resurgence or the Top 15 teams in Battle Royale.

The Top 250 Rank returns, ranking the top players globally on an in-game Leaderboard accessible from the Ranked Play lobby.

• Players will qualify for the Top 250 and appear on the Leaderboard as they surpass 10,000+ SR.  
• The top 250 players with the highest SR above 10,000 will remain on the board and compete for 1st place over the remainder of the Season.
• The player who ends the season as the #1 Ranked Player will receive unique rewards:
  • Exclusive, one-of-a-kind Calling Card.
  • Top 250 Champion Skin, available only to players who finish #1 in a Season.
• Additional Rank and Seasonal Rewards for achieving milestones throughout the Season.

New this year, Eliminations now factor in the difference in skill between you and the victim. This more accurately rewards overcoming a high ranked player, and lessens the impact if the skill delta is too wide (via players being brought into a match with friends, or otherwise).

This skill delta reward changes depending on if they are + / - 3 ranks from your own. 

* "Top Placements" is defined as finishing among the Top 15 teams in Battle Royale.

» Penalties & Suspensions «

• Players who disconnect or quit matches will face SR penalties and temporary suspensions. Repeat offenders will receive escalating penalties.

» Social Profile «

• Rank Play icons will be added to your Social profile, showcasing your Ranked Play Rank wherever your profile is viewed across Black Ops 6 and Warzone.

• Specialist Discount
  • Firesale’s discount for Specialist has increased to 50%, up from 30% to be inline with other items. 

• XM4 3-Round Burst Mod Conversion (In-Season)
  • Convert the XM4 Assault Rifle’s primary firing mode into a three-round burst, conserving ammo and supporting a steadier aim through sustained combat.
  • Acquirable via Event Reward

• Kompakt 92 3-Round Burst Mod Conversion (In-Season)
  • Add some control to the rapid-fire Kompakt 92 SMG with a three-round burst primary firing mode. Each burst cycles quickly to the next, allowing you to still pump out damage when it’s needed most.
  • Acquirable via Event Reward

» Submachine Guns «

• All Black Ops 6 SMGs have had their reload speeds increased by 10%

• Lootable SMGs
  • Updated SMG magazine sizes to be larger than 30 rounds.

• Custom Loadout Colors Quality of Life
  • Weapons that players infil with or respawn will no longer show as a single custom loadout color. Rather, they will now have a weapon rarity color based on the number of attachments.

After reviewing internal data, we’ve made the decision to slightly adjust the player count on Area 99, our newest Resurgence map.
 

The updated player counts are as follows:
 

• Quads: 44 → 40 
• Trios: 45 → 42 
• Duos: 44 → 40 
• Solos: 45 → 40
   

These changes aim to improve the overall pacing of each match and reduce the frequency of third-party interruptions during engagements. We hope to reduce friction by striking a better balance between action and player agency, allowing players the all-important time to loot up - and get their Loadout.
 

In the meantime, we’ll continue monitoring feedback and data to make further adjustments if needed.
 

We look forward to sharing more about upcoming Warzone updates soon. 

The Hit List Limited-Time Event is NOW LIVE!
 

This event gives players a board of contracts with one goal – take them all out. Cross off the entire list and earn some exclusive loot for hire.

• Rebirth Island 
  • A number of lighting and audio adjustments have been made to improve gameplay.

• Reload times for Black Ops 6 Assaults Rifles and Light Machine Guns are reduced by 10%. 

We’re taking passes at improving the flow and reducing downtime between gunfights, future updates will address other classes 

• Legacy XP Tokens 
  • Updated Black Ops 6 to support legacy XP token functionality.
     
• Hitmarkers 
  • Improved hitmarker UI to help identify individual shots more easily.
    
    
• Store 
  • Improved the loading of Tracer and Inspect preview videos for weapons.

• Fixed an issue that was causing Buy Stations to charge players an amount for items that did not align with the displayed purchase price. 

• Fixed an issue that caused PlayStation players to encounter a black screen when attempting to access Warzone via the What’s Hot row. 

• Fixed an issue that caused the AEK-973 Marksman Rifle found via ground loot to fire in full automatic. 

Treyarch has delivered several updates to combat disruptive behavior, including:

• Enhanced AFK detections to battle against account boosting 
• Adjusting ping thresholds to require players play matches in their region to cut down on VPN abuse

To unlock Ranked Play in Black Ops 6, players will need to win 50 match-made multiplayer matches: 

• This ensures that players are experienced with multiplayer before they enter the mode and gives #TeamRICOCHET a historical match history to examine before an account enters Ranked Play 

• #TeamRICOCHET also utilizes its Replay Investigation Tool to monitor replays of top players as part of the investigation process 

Detection systems initially deployed at launch from #TeamRICOCHET to collect data to test for effectiveness will be activated to help flag accounts for action beginning with Season 01. 

The security system updates listed above will also be active for Ranked Play in Call of Duty®: Warzone™, which launches at mid-season. 

An all-new Battle Pass System grants you the opportunity to earn 100+ rewards, including free base weapons, numerous Weapon Blueprints, Equipment Skins, Operator Skins, and much more. There are three ways to obtain some or all of this content:

• Earn 20+ free rewards, including cosmetic content and base weapons.
• Purchase the premium Battle Pass and earn up to 1,100 COD Points as you progress through the Battle Pass Pages.
• Or purchase BlackCell for the ultimate seasonal experience, including a variety of molten hot Operator Skins, Weapon Blueprints, COD points, and other rewards.

For a full breakdown of the Season 01 Battle Pass and the breadth of content that it has to offer, check out the official blog here.

Additional Note: To celebrate the new Area 99 map, it is the exclusive Resurgence map during the first weekend of launch, with Rebirth Island then returning to the playlist.

For information about upcoming Playlists, please check out the dedicated Warzone Trello Board.

An all-new Ranked Play experience will come to Battle Royale on Urzikstan for the first time with Season 01 Reloaded. Keep an eye open for more intel later this year.

• Carry-Forward 
  • Weapons, blueprints, operators and skins, and vast majority of the cosmetics from Modern Warfare II and III will be available to players in the Black Ops 6 era of Warzone. 

• AFK Detection 
  • We have updated the detection logic to determine if a player is AFK during an active match.

• Leaderboards 
  • To accommodate and track the new statistics coming with the Black Ops 6 integration, the Warzone Leaderboard stats will be reset at launch.

The Black Ops 6 Armory (BETA) is a repository that provides access to previously missed Loadout content from prior titles including Modern Warfare II and III. Players can look for and activate an item in the Armory to start earning XP toward unlocking it.

The Armory is unlocked at Player Level 24 and is added to the Level Unlock Menu. This menu serves as a platform to browse items that otherwise cannot be earned through normal weapon progression.

Please note that certain legacy attachments will be missing from the armory at the launch of Season 01. New players seeking to unlock these items can do so by playing the respective legacy title until they are implemented in Black Ops 6 in a future update. Players that have already unlocked this content in previous games are not impacted.

Weapon Mastery Camos NEW 

The Weapon Camo grind has been overhauled in Black Ops 6 and is bigger than ever. You’ll be progressing through Camos on the quest to earn the first ever Call of Duty: Warzone Mastery Camo: Abyss (Season 01).

For a more detailed look at Progression in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Warzone, check out the Launch Comms: Progression Systems blog here. 

• Body Shield 
  • Sneak up behind an unsuspecting enemy and double-tap the melee button to pull them close as your personal shield against incoming fire.  
  • Once they’ve served their purpose, gracefully deliver the coup de grâce. 
  • Body Shield is the spiritual successor to the previous Interrogation mechanic. 

• Dedicated Melee Weapon 
  • All player loadouts will have a dedicated melee weapon by default, in addition to their primary and secondary weapon slots.  
  • Players can swap to their dedicated melee weapon by holding down the melee button. 
  • Players holding a melee weapon will benefit from unlimited tac sprint. 

• Shootable Doors 
  • Doors can now be shot open allowing for new tactics and strategy. 

• Primary Weapon 
  • The Loadout inventory is returning to the classic Warzone experience where players can only equip one Primary weapon. 
  • There is a Wildcard detailed further below that allows for two Primary weapons to be equipped. 

• Self-Revive Auto Pickup 
  • While downed, players will now be able to automatically loot Self-Revive kits that are within close proximity. 

• Live Ping Duration 
  • The duration of live pings has been reduced from 3 seconds to 2 in order to bring more balance to a combat engagement. 

• Armor Plate Replacement Speed 
  • The speed at which players can replace broken or missing armor plates has been increased by 8% to match the fluidity of Black Ops 6 Omnimovement. 

• Abandon Timer 
  • The time players must wait to give up has been reduced from 5 seconds to 4 seconds due to the previous Interrogation mechanic being replaced. 

• Deaths Door 
  • The health at which players will enter the death’s door state has been reduced from 50% to 35%. 
  • The health at which the death’s door state will end has been reduced from 70% to 55%. 
  • This change is due to us wanting to enable Players to better hear and see their surroundings when under threat by an enemy. 

• Omnimovement 
  • The movement and combat innovations from Black Ops 6 are fully integrated into Warzone. This allows players to Sprint, Slide, and Dive in any direction, perform 180-degree Combat Dives, and execute advanced moves like the Combat Supine and Omni-Sprint for dynamic tactical play. 

• Combat Supine
  • Drop to a prone position, then rotate your Operator for a complete 360-degree view of your surroundings. Then fire to eliminate the enemy quickly as they appear, all the while staying in the supine position.

• Intelligent Movement 
  • Players can now customize elements of how they traverse landscape and navigate combat. 
  • Available in the Keyboard & Mouse or Controller Options under “Movement,” players will find the following features: 
    • Sprint Assist: Choose whether to manually or automatically sprint, tactically sprint, how much of a delay before sprinting begins, and if the assist occurs while sprinting sideways or backwards. 
    • Mantle Assist: Customize how and when to automatically mantle over obstacles. 
    • Crouch Assist: This enables crouching and sliding when the intent is to move through a valid opening. 
    • Corner Slice: Allows the act of inclining weapons (and camera) when adjacent to or moving around a corner. This doesn’t affect aim. Default is “on.” 

• Unlimited Tac Sprint  
  • Players will have access to unlimited tac sprint via the Sprinter Perk or by holding their dedicated melee weapon. 

• Mantle Protection 
  • Players will now climb onto thin or high ledges rather than over them to prevent untimely deaths.

• Tac Sprint Duration 
  • We heard feedback around default tac sprint duration, so it has been increased from 2 seconds to 4 seconds. 

• Landing Tuning 
  • The duration of the shock effect when falling from a near-death height has been reduced to 2.1 seconds from 3 seconds. 
  • The minimum fall damage required before the shock effect from landing is now 55%, up from 50% allowing for slightly higher jumps with less punishment. 
  • This change is made to better enable the movement opportunities that the Black Ops 6 integration allows. 

• Vertical Ascenders & Horizontal Zipline Improvements Quality of Life 
  • Interacting with the Ascenders and Ziplines lines has been improved, making it easier to attach to the line from an angle or while free falling to increase fluidity. 

• Redeploy Drones 
  • Redeploy Drones are fixed in place for the duration of a match. 
  • Once a Redeploy Drone has been consumed by the gas, it will leave the map rather than relocating to give a more consistent experience.

Perks in Warzone are now streamlined, allowing players to choose three Perks (one from each color-coded slot) in the Loadouts Menu. Most Pick-3 Perks unlock as you level up but re-lock upon Prestiging. Black Ops 6 player levels carry over to Warzone, unlocking corresponding Perks. 

• Lootable Perks 
  • Lootable Perks return! Each season, players will encounter a number of perks via Ground Loot and Supply Boxes. These perk effects stack on top of the original Pick-3 Perks players have selected in their loadout. 
  • When a player is eliminated, their Pick-3 Perks will drop on the ground as a “Custom Perk Pack” to be recovered or stolen by another player, while any looted perks will disappear. 
  • The Lootable Perks players can find include a mix of perks from the 18 possible Pick-3 Perks, in addition to two perks that are unique to ground loot; 
    • Shrouded 
    • Irradiated 
  • Players will recognize their Pick-3 Perks when they are equipped in the bottom right of the HUD, while lootable perks can be viewed in the Inventory. 

• Specialist Perk Package 
  • Found as a rare loot drop or Care Package reward, Specialist grants every Perk including all 18 Pick-3 Perks, as well as both Ground Loot exclusive Perks - Irradiated and Shrouded.  
  • If you're eliminated, the Specialist Perk package will disappear. 
  • Can be acquired in Buy Stations in limited quantities for $30,000. 

• Pre-Match Perks Quality of Life 
  • Perks can now be edited in the pre-match lobby. 

First introduced in Black Ops Cold War, Wildcards come to Warzone with 4 options that act as special, single-use perks for each loadout. These loadout modifiers allow players to equip more gear, weapons, or attachments, adding unique customization and variety to gameplay.

Satchels are new loot items that expand storage for inventory slots, allowing players to carry more of an item type and improve efficiency. Each Satchel type can be equipped simultaneously and are dropped upon elimination. 

Warzone continues to provide an extensive selection of lethal and tactical equipment, allowing players a range of options to suit their combat style. With the release of Black Ops 6, players can explore new additions to the equipment lineup, some of which we suspect may become fan favorites. We’ve also made several visual and balance adjustments to classic equipment, ensuring a diverse arsenal to choose from.

With the Black Ops 6 integration, we have adjusted a number of the Lethal and Tactical equipment to offer a new and fresh arsenal of choices.

• Maximum Deployed Equipment 
  • The maximum number of lethal and tactical equipment that can be planted at the same time has been increased to 3 up from 2. 
  • We aligned Warzone with the changes to Multiplayer. This enables some of the new traps to be better utilized and function better with other adjustments like the Munitions Vest and Bomb Squad. 

• Frag 
  • Outer damage decreased to 65 from 110. 
  • Middle damage increased to 170 from 155. 
  • Inner damage decreased to 260 from 275.
  • Frag Cooking Indicator Quality of Life 
    • Players will now notice a UI indicator to better determine the time remaining until a frag detonates.

• Semtex 
  • Explosion radius decreased to 5m from 6.5m. 
  • Outer damage decreased to 45 from 110. 
  • Inner damage decreased to 180 from 200. 

• Throwing Knife 
  • Damage decreased to 180 from 200. 

• Drill Charge 
  • Outer damage decreased to 39 from 110. 

• Molotov 
  • Burn stage damage was reduced to 10,15,25 from 15, 25, 30. 

• Smoke 
  • VFX updated to be at parity with Black Ops 6. 

• Experimental Gas 
  • Will now deal 10 damage per tick. 

• Snapshot Grenade 
  • Radius increased to 15m from 10m. 
  • Will now put a mark over a successfully “snapped” target which lasts for 5 seconds. 

Killstreaks in Warzone, much like Multiplayer’s Scorestreaks, are game-changing tools that players can find via ground loot, Supply Boxes, or as rewards from contracts and events. Many of these Killstreaks are lethal, unleashing devastating airstrikes and explosions that can decimate enemy squads from above. Others are tactical, offering valuable intel on enemy positions or on ideal positioning for upcoming fights. With Black Ops 6, a few new Killstreaks have been introduced designed to give players a real advantage in the heat of battle. 

• Advanced UAV
  • The Advanced UAV now uses a "wipe" effect that scans across the tac map from left to right, rather than the circular ping originating at the player.
  • We adjusted this visual to better differentiate between when a UAV or Advanced UAV is active. This serves to assist in areas such as calling in 3 UAVs to activate an Advanced version.
     
• Bunker Buster 
  • Similar to the Predator Missile from Modern Warfare, the Trophy will now cause the Bunker Buster to detonate mid-air stopping it from penetrating the building. The explosion damage is reduced and the gas will unload at the location it was destroyed. Like all projectiles the trophy must have line of sight.

We've expanded the Warzone arsenal to include weapons from the launch of Black Ops 6 in October 2024, giving players even more options to customize their loadouts. Dive into Warzone with these powerful additions, now available alongside fan favorites from previous titles.  

At launch, Black Ops 6 weapons in Warzone will share similar values to their Multiplayer counterparts such as ADS speed, sprint to fire, and recoil. However, damage profiles for a number of weapons have been modified to establish a baseline for Warzone. We encourage new and returning players to study their favorite weapon’s details in the Gunsmith. 

With the integration of Black Ops 6, we also now have new tuning options for weapons that weren’t previously available, allowing us to adjust aspects like handling (ADS speed and sprint to fire), magazine sizes, recoil, and more. For instance, while the AS VAL has a default magazine size of 20 in Multiplayer, we’ve set it to 30 for Warzone. 

Our goal is to make weapon adjustments faster to keep the available selection dynamic and engaging, without making any weapons feel obsolete. With these new tuning options, we aim to refine each weapon’s identity and role specific to their use in Warzone, such as emphasizing Assault Rifles as strong long-range options. 

Additionally, all bolt-action snipers and pump-action shotguns (while aiming down sights) from Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III, and Black Ops 6 will have a one-shot headshot potential within their respective max damage ranges. Additionally, in order to incentivize intentional aim, all shotguns will fire 5 pellets while ADSing versus 4 when fired from the hip. 

We want players to feel that weapons from Modern Warfare II and Modern Warfare III continue to remain solid, viable choices in Warzone. Our goal is to create a unified combat system that makes each gun enjoyable to use, regardless of its origin. We’ll continue to improve legacy weapons and attachments throughout the coming year to further support this vision.